Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed
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Children in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio and hepatitis, said Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, on Wednesday in a speech during which he likened vaccine mandates to “slavery”.
Ladapo, hand-picked for the role by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, is a long-time skeptic of the benefit of vaccines, and has previously been accused of peddling “scientific nonsense” by public health advocates.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate
Author : Richard Luscombe in Miami
Publish date : 2025-09-03 18:43:00
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